Melissa A. Click, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Communication Studies

Dr. Melissa A. Click's research interests center on popular culture texts and audiences, particularly texts and audiences disdained in mainstream culture. Her work in this area is guided by audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media...

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Dr. Melissa A. Click's research interests center on popular culture texts and audiences, particularly texts and audiences disdained in mainstream culture. Her work in this area is guided by audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media literacy. Recent research projects involve romance readers, the impact of social media in fans relationship with celebrities, masculinity and male fans, and the inevitable changes fans experience in their fandom over time.

Her scholarship has been published in Television & New Media, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Men & Masculinities, Popular Communication, Popular Music & Society, and Transformative Works & Cultures.

She is the co-editor of Bitten by Twilight and the Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (forthcoming). NYU Press will publish her forthcoming edited collection, Dislike, Hate, and Anti-fandom in the Digital Age

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Edited Books:

Click, M. A. (2018). Dislike, hate, and anti-fandom in the digital age. New York University Press.

Click, M. A., & *Brock, N. (2016). Marking the line between producers and fans: Representations of fannish-ness in Doctor Who and Sherlock. In L. Bennett & P. Booth (Eds.), Representations of fandom in media and popular culture. New York: Bloomsbury. 117-126.